White Friar Tower, cist

In 1844, when G.B. Richardson published the discovery of some Roman finds near the White Friar tower, he included the following note: "...about two years and a half ago (i.e. c.mid 1841) there was found, at a short distance from the (town) wall on the inside, a British urn, in a coffin-shaped chamber, a few inches below the present surface...". His failure to comment on the presence of bones perhaps suggests the cist enclosed a cremation. The pot has not survived and so cannot be precisely identified.